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COLORADO ANIMAL SHELTERS,
S.P.C.A.s & HUMANE SOCIETIES
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Denver Area
Animal Rescue & Adoption
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State of Colorado
Animal Rescue & Adoption
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COLORADO CAT ADOPTION & RESCUE
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Denver Cat Rescue & Cat Adoption
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COLORADO DOG ADOPTION & RESCUE
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Denver Dog Rescue & Dog Adoption
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State of Colorado
Dog Rescue & Dog Adoption
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Doberman Rescue of Colorado
Doberman Rescue of Colorado
(serving the State of Colorado)
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High Country Basset Hound Rescue &
Adoption Service, Inc.
High Country Basset Hound Rescue & Adoption Service, Inc.
(serving Denver & the State of Colorado)
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Jack Russell Terrier Rescue of Colorado
Jack Russell Terrier Rescue of Colorado
(serving the State of Colorado)
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Colorado Pug Rescue
Colorado Pug Rescue (CPR)
(serving Colorado & Wyoming)
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Dalmation Rescue of Colorado
Dalmation Rescue of Colorado, Inc.
(serving Colorado, Wyoming,
Idaho & New Mexico)
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Rocky Mountain Great Dane Rescue, Inc.
Rocky Mountain Great Dane Rescue, Inc. (RMGDRI)
(serving Colorado, Kansas,
Nebraska, Wyoming & Utah)
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Companion Golden Retriever Rescue
Companion Golden Retriever Rescue (CGRR)
(serving Utah, Idaho, Montana,
Wyoming, Colorado, Arizona & Nevada)
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COLORADO HORSE & EQUINE
ADOPTION & RESCUE
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Denver
Horse Rescue & Horse Adoption
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The Epona Project
The Epona Project
(serving Castle Rock &
the Denver metropolitan area)
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State of Colorado
Horse Rescue & Horse Adoption
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COLORADO REPTILE ADOPTION & RESCUE
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People have come together worldwide and in the State of Colorado to
assist a special class of friends unable to speak for themselves
— our pets and companion animals. These people have formed
humane societies and animal adoption and rescue agencies of local,
regional, national and even international scope. Most humane societies
and animal rescue agencies are not-for-profit organizations, relying
upon donations, grants and volunteer assistance. The focus and goals of
each agency vary, but as a group they serve to perform and promote the
following important functions:
- Protection, rescue and placement (through adoption or return to owner)
of lost, endangered and abused domestic animals;
- Education of pet owners and prospective pet owners regarding the
health, safety and proper care of pets;
- Operation of clinics to insure that even low-income pet owners can have
their animals innoculated against common diseases;
- Sponsorship of humane programs to limit or reduce populations of
domestic animals that have, through abandonment and subsequent
overbreeding, become feral (wild); such programs typically include
sterilization (neutering) and redomestication;
- Introduction and sponsorship of legislation regarding protection of
animals.
If you are a resident of the State of Colorado, would like to become a pet
owner (Pet caretaker is a better term; if you are a true pet
lover you realize that pets should not be treated as property and that
your pets really own you.) and believe you can do so responsibly (See our
Pet
Health & Safety Tips.), please consider pet adoption from
a Colorado animal shelter, humane society or a pet adoption and rescue
agency. When you adopt a dog, cat, or other pet, you provide love and
care to an animal who might otherwise never find a home. Hundreds of
thousands of abandoned or lost pets are euthanized annually in the U.S.
alone because no one comes to their aid and the cost to maintain them
in animal shelters is simply too high. Dogs and cats are the preferred
pets of Americans; sadly, this makes them the most abundant and hence,
as a group, the most neglected. Let’s each do our part to help all
of our “fur-footed” friends find the good homes they so richly
deserve; adopt a dog, cat or other pet or donate to a Colorado pet
adoption agency.
Authored by Kenneth L. Anderson.
Original article published 24 January 2004, updated 29 June
2005.
Follow links to the right to learn more about Colorado animal protection,
pet adoption and pet rescue agencies. These include but are not
limited to cat adoption and rescue agencies, dog adoption and rescue
agencies, humane societies and S.P.C.A.s. The links are currently arranged
within groupings such as Animal Shelters, Humane Societies &
S.P.C.A.s (which includes agencies that rescue more than one type
of animal) and Dog Adoption & Rescue.
At the left margin, Related Links address topics of interest
pertaining to pets and companion animals. View the
Pet Adoption & Rescue SiteMap
for a complete list of animal adoption agencies, humane societies and pet placement topics.
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